https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 https://www.spin.com/2019/09/lana-del-rey-wants-to-work-with-the-national/ https://www.spin.com/2019/09/lana-del-rey-wants-to-work-with-the-national/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:59:44 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=341694 Lana Del Rey released her astonishing new LP Norman Fucking Rockwell, which, depending on who you ask, might be the best album of 2019 thus far. Other than Jack Antonoff, who produced and co-wrote the bulk of the album, and a few behind-the-scenes pop-songwriter types like Louis Bell, Del Rey didn’t work with… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/09/lana-del-rey-wants-to-work-with-the-national/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-rylan-colbert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-rylan-colbert/#respond Fri, 24 May 2019 13:44:34 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=328194 The National first performed "Rylan" way back in 2011, the song has become a fan-favorite—something you'd only hear at a live show, since the track didn't appear on 2013's Trouble Will Find Me or 2017's Sleep Well Beast. But with the National's most recent album, I Am Easy To Find, "Rylan" has finally found its home. The… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-rylan-colbert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-colbert/ https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-colbert/#respond Wed, 15 May 2019 13:57:00 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=327076 The National's new album I Am Easy To Find is almost upon us. Ahead of the official release on Friday, Matt Berninger and the gang stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for a rendition of the album's lead single, "You Had Your Soul With You." Gail Ann Dorsey, whose honeyed vocals… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/05/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-colbert/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-review/ https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-review/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:04:00 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=320582 The National weren’t always like this. Somewhere in the long comedown from High Violet, the brazen candor that had defined the band’s early albums was exchanged for something subtler and more personal. Their 2013 album Trouble Will Find Me was a knotty, compositionally challenging look at anxiety, with songs like "Demons" and "Humiliation" showcasing a… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-you-had-your-soul-with-you-review/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-announce/ https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-announce/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:40:51 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=320548 The National have announced a new album, I Am Easy To Find, out May 17 via 4AD. It's the band's eighth full-length studio album and first since 2017's Sleep Well Beast. It comes along with an accompanying short film of the same name, helmed by 20th Century Women director Mike Mills and starring Alicia Vikander. Per a press release,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2019/03/the-national-i-am-easy-to-find-announce/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/06/justin-vernon-aaron-dessner-people-platform/ https://www.spin.com/2018/06/justin-vernon-aaron-dessner-people-platform/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:06:19 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=292797 Aaron Dessner of the National and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver have started their own streaming platform called PEOPLE, an offshoot of Dessner and Vernon's PEOPLE festival. The idea is that it's an open streaming site for artists to post anything from demos to sketches to one-off collaborations. The database contains music from members of the… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/06/justin-vernon-aaron-dessner-people-platform/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/04/the-national-light-years-new-song-listen/ https://www.spin.com/2018/04/the-national-light-years-new-song-listen/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:18:07 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=288065 The National premiered what appears to be a brand new song called "Light Years" Sunday during the second night of their Cincinnati-based Homecoming Festival. The tune begins with Matt Berninger wistfully rasping against a florid piano accompaniment, with a subtle backbeat and sighs of slide guitar creeping in gradually. The band recently released a live album of Boxer… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/04/the-national-light-years-new-song-listen/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-matt-berninger-my-enemy-stream/ https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-matt-berninger-my-enemy-stream/#respond Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:25:04 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=280463 CHVRCHES and Matt Berninger have teamed up on the sweeping "My Enemy," the latest single off CHVRCHES's upcoming LP Love Is Dead. Though the majority of Love Is Dead is produced by Greg Kurstin, "My Enemy" was "100% CHVRCHES," according to frontwoman Lauren Mayberry. She also spoke about working with The National singer in a new Beats 1 interview: "I think… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-matt-berninger-my-enemy-stream/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-new-album-love-is-dead-the-national-matt-berninger/ https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-new-album-love-is-dead-the-national-matt-berninger/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:39:12 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=279940 The National’s Matt Berninger made a brief appearance in the video for Chvrches’ new single "Get Out," teasing something with the words "Friend Or Foe." It looks like the answer to that question is "foe," because Chvrches’ upcoming album, which frontwoman Lauren Mayberry revealed in a recent interview is going to be titled Love Is… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/02/chvrches-new-album-love-is-dead-the-national-matt-berninger/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/02/the-national-matt-berninger-tv-show/ https://www.spin.com/2018/02/the-national-matt-berninger-tv-show/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:11:14 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=279421 The National's Matt Berninger and his brother Tom are taking the dark-comedic energy that fueled Mistaken for Strangers, the 2013 psuedo-documentary focused on the band, and applying it to a new, "more scripted" television project. The National lead singer confirmed during an AMA on the Australian radio station Double J that he would be starring in… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/02/the-national-matt-berninger-tv-show/feed/ 0